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The Fountain of Life Opened
The fountain of life opened, or, A display of Christ in his essential and mediatorial glory wherein the impetration of our redemption by Jesus Christ is orderly unfolded as it was begun, carried on, and finished by his covenant-transaction, mysterious incarnation, solemn call and dedication ... / by John Flavell ...The fountain of life opened, or, A display of Christ in his essential and mediatorial glory wherein the impetration of our redemption by Jesus Christ is orderly unfolded as it was begun, carryed on, and finished by his covenant-transaction, mysterious incarnation, solemn call and dedication ... / by John Flavell ...
London: printed for Rob. White, 1673
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Fourthly,1 The humane nature is so united with the Divine, as that each nature still retains its own essential properties, distinct. And this distinction is not, nor can be lost by that union. So that the two understandings, wills, powers, &c. viz. The Divine and humane, are not confounded: but a line of distinction runs betwixt them still, in this wonderful Person. It was the Heresy of the Eutychians condemned by the Council of Chalcedon, to affirm that there was no distinction betwixt the two natures in Christ. Against whom that Council determined, that they were united [Greek or Hebrew] without any immutation, or confusion.
Fourthly,1 The humane nature is so united with the Divine, as that each nature still retains its own essential properties, distinct. And this distinction is not, nor can be lost by that union. So that the two understandings, wills, powers, &c. viz. The Divine and humane, are not confounded: but a line of distinction runs betwixt them still, in this wonderful Person. It was the Heresie of the Eutichians condemned by the Council of Chalcedon, to affirm that there was no distinction betwixt the two natures in Christ. Against whom that Council determined, that they were united 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 without any immutation, or confusion.
- 1Neque tamen humanitas hac ratione exaltata, aut in deitatem mutata, aut cum eâdem est confusa; quasi ulli•s•uae deit•ti peculi aris existet. sive qualitatis, sive proprietatis particeps facta: sed ab eâdem distiacta mansit, usque maneth; constans nempè fraito corpore consimilique quoad substantiam & facultates essentials hominum aliorum omnium anima. Bradshaw de justific. p. 79.Neque tamen humanitas hac ratione exaltata, aut in deitatem mutata, aut cum eâdem est confusa; quasi ulli•s•uae deitti peculi aris existet. sive qualitatis, sive proprietatis particeps facta: sed ab eâdem distiacta mansit, usque manet; constans nempè fraito corpore consimilique quoad substantiam & facultates essentiales hominum aliorum omnium anima. Bradshaw de justific. p. 79.